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Chelsea January transfer window plans: Contracts, signings and targets

Chelsea January transfer window plans, contract concerns and signings; keep up to date with all the latest news across the whole of the 2025 winter transfer window with the Transfer Centre blog on Sky Sports' website and app, and on Sky Sports News

Wednesday 1 January 2025 12:08, UK

What are Chelsea's January transfer plans?

Left over from Chelsea in the summer is the issue of a new striker. They pursued Victor Osimhen right until the end of the deadline but no deal materialised and he is now on loan at Galatasaray.

Since then they could hardly have asked for a better start to the season or for better form from Nicolas Jackson, who has been excellent as the central striker. It may be that this has changed the thinking as to what kind of new striker they need.

Ipswich's impressive hitman Liam Delap is known to Chelsea head of recruitment Joe Shields and head coach Enzo Maresca from their time together in Manchester City's academy and a number of bigger clubs like what they have seen from Delap so far this term.

Chelsea are not expected to do much else unless other players leave and one who is certain to do so is Ben Chilwell after being frozen out of the squad. Carney Chukwuemeka is another, while there is also speculation around Christopher Nkunku and Axel Disasi.

Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall is also an interesting one to watch given he has not started a Premier League game since signing in the summer from Leicester.

Other players out on loan may also be called back to go elsewhere for more games, including Lesley Ugochukwu, who is at Southampton.

Harvey Vale could head out on loan with Sunderland, Anderlecht and Heerenveen all keen, but Alfie Gilchrist looks set to stay on loan at promotion-chasing Sheffield United, where he is doing well.

Which Chelsea players are out of contract in the summer?

Lucas Bergstrom

The 22-year-old goalkeeper has been on loan to two clubs since joining Chelsea in 2022 but has never played for the Blues. He signed a deal until this summer in February 2024.

Who did Chelsea sign in the summer transfer window?

Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall - Leicester, £30m

Marc Guiu - Barcelona, £5m

Omari Kellyman - Aston Villa, £19m

Tosin - Fulham, free

Pedro Neto - Wolves, £54m

Renato Veiga - Basel, £12m

Caleb Wiley - Atlanta, undisclosed

Estevao Willian - Palmeiras, £29.1m (joins in the summer of 2025)

Filip Jorgensen - Villarreal, £20.7m

Aaron Anselmino - Boca Juniors, £15.6m

Joao Felix - Atletico Madrid, £46.3m

Mike Penders - Genk, £17m (joins in the summer of 2025)

Jadon Sancho - Manchester United, loan

When does the winter transfer window close?

The 2025 winter transfer window officially closes on Monday February 3 at 11pm UK time in the Premier League.

The window for most major European leagues - including France (1pm GMT), Germany, Scotland and Spain - also closes on Monday February 3, though times vary.

Italian clubs, meanwhile, only have until 7pm on Saturday February 1 to do their business and the transfer window in Turkey closes on Tuesday February 11.

Further afield, the window shuts in Saudi Arabia on January 30.